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A RADIO-PROGRAMME OF THE DUTCH NATIONAL PUBLIC STATION VPRO DEDICATED TO WORLD MUSIC. Commentary in Dutch

          

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A RADIO-PROGRAMME OF THE DUTCH NATIONAL PUBLIC STATION VPRO WITH MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES.     Spoken texta in Dutch

      
   
 
 
SIPSONGPANNA
EEN WONDERLIJKE ZIEL
8 MAY 2006 ..23'02-24'00
19 JULY 2006 ..23'02-24'00
    Sipsongpanna, a former Thai Lue kingdom, is nowadays a small autonomous region in southern China with a remarkable ethnic diversity. After decades of repression the traditional musics and cultures of the region are florishing again. A representative selection of recent field recordings from the region. Henriette van Lennep , a Dutch composer in the classical romantic genre, became later in her life a pioneer of ' world music' on the Dutch radio, following the exeample of Constatin Braïloïu and the Unesco. Her life story illustrated with unique recordings of her compositions and 'lost' radio broadcasts. Audio, pictures, texts
 
 
JOHN COLLINS BOKOOR
OVER LAND EN ZEE
5 DECEMBER 2005 ..23'02-24'00
23 NOVEMBER 2005..23'02-24'00
  John Collins, nowadays professor of music at the University of Ghana in Legon is a writer, musician, studio owner and publisher who for decades has been promoting Ghanaian popular music. In the program he talks about his career in music illustrated with recordings from his Bokoor studio and other publishers of Ghanaian Highlife. The life story of Herman ten Kate, a Dutch traveller, physician, and ethnologist of the turn of the 19th and 20th century. In his writings he gives a vivid account of the large-scale destruction of the indigineous cultures which started in his time. Excerpts of his writings varying from his atopsy of the Indian slaves of an Argintinean museum till his lonely discovery of Sumba are illustrated with period recordings.Audio etc.
 
             
MAE BUASON
THIS MIRACULOUS WORK
3 OCTOBER 2005 ''23'02-24'00
17 MARCH 2005 V20:02-21:00
  Mae Buason is the leading 'Saw' and 'Joy' singer of Lanna Thai. In the program you will hear unique recordings in which she demonstrates the different styles of both genres. Audio, playlist, pictures

A biography in sound of Freerk Kamma (1906-1987), who spend his life spreading the christian message and writing on the Papua cultures of the northern part of West Papua. A selection of his music recordings, his stories and interviews with his children, friends and colleagues. Audio, pictures, texts, playlist and map

                   
MUSIC AS A WEAPON
CAPE MALAYS
8 AUGUST 2005 V23'02-24'00
24 FEBRUARY 2005V 20:02-21:00
  A history in sound of the role music plays in war, revolution, and evoking the fighting spirit with examples from the Spanish civil war, the independence struggle in Aden, the war in Biafra and so on. A shortened version of an earlier broadcast from 28 april 1997. Audio The song detective Willem van Warmelo went in 1939 to South Africa where he got fascinated with the music of the Cape Malays. He wrote articles, made recordings and broadcasts untill the growing apartheid forced him to leave the country in 1962. A selection of his recordings and passages from his dairies. Audio, pictures and playlist  
 
 
THE LAHU
THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION. PART 2
9 MAY 2005 C23'02-24'00
23 SEPTEMBER 2004v 20:02-21:00
 

Field-recordings from the Lahu Shehleh and the Black, White, Yellow and Red Lahu recorded in Laos, Thailand and Burma. Audio, the play list, pictures and a map

The second part of the story of Arthur Schopenhauer's great journey through Europe in 1803 and 1804. A reconstruction based on passages from his dairy and his mother's travelogues alternated with contemporary music. Audio, playlist and bibliography

 
 
THE AFRICAN MUSIC OF PHILIPS
THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION. PART 1
22 NOVEMBER 2004 C20:02-21:00
23 SEPTEMBER 2004v 20:02-21:00
  African music records produced and released by the Dutch multinational Philips for the local African and the international market between 1950 and 1980. Audio, the play list and pictures The first part of the story of Arthur Schopenhauer's great journey through Europe in 1803 and 1804. A reconstruction based on passages from his dairy and his mother's travelogues alternated with contemporary music. Audio, playlist and bibliography
MOOI EN BIJZONDER
EUGENE BRANDS AND THE MUSIC OF MAN
21 JUNE 2004b 19:02-20:00
10 JUNE 2004 v19:00-20:00
An overview of 15 years of field recordings in mainland South-East Asia. Audio, the play list and more pictures The Cobra painter Eugene Brands was an ardent collector and propagator of world music.A selection from his 78 rpm collection, interviews with family members, friends, colleagues and admireres and a selection of his writings on music. Audio and playlist
WAR MEMORIES FROM LAOS
BABAR LAYAR
15 MARCH 2004 b19:02-20:00
4 MARCH 2004 v19:00-20:00
Field recordings from North Laos in which the atrocities of the secret war the Americans waged in this part of the world are still vividly remembered. Audio, the play list and more pictures The story of the first 'white'gamelan ensemble from its beginnings during the second world war till 1956. Interviews with the surviving members of the group, excerpts of publications by and on the ensemble and their recordings. Audio and playlist
 
THE WA
THE POET GOES AROUND THE WORLD
10 NOVEMBER 2003 b19:02-20:00
9 OCTOBER 2003 v19:00-20:00
Field recordings of three Wa speaking ethnic groups in Burma (Wa, En, Loi) contrasted with recordings from the Yellow Lahu and the Thai Khün. Audio, the play list and more pictures In 1933 the famous Dutch poet Slauerhoff gave a lecture in the Hague in which he invited the public to follow him on his journeys around the world through his poems and prose. A reconstruction with the voice of his biographer Kees Lekkerkerker and the music Slauerhoff listened to. Audio and playlist
 
ALAN LOMAX

DE AVONDEN

  A RADIO-PROGRAM OF THE DUTCH NATIONAL PUBLIC STATION VPRO DEDICATED    TO ART, CULTURE, SCIENCE AND LITERATURE

25 NOVEMBER 2002 b19:02-20:00
    An hommage to Alan Lomax with a selection of his recordings and radio broadcasts. Audio, the playlist and links:  
           
MARIND ANIM
GER VAN WENGEN AND THE GAMELAN
28 OCTOBER 2002 C19:02-20:00
6 DECEMBER 1999..
The only recordings ever made of the traditional music of the Marind Anim people of southern West Papua before this culture disappeared were made by a Dutch catholic priest Jan Verschueren. Audio and playlist An interview with Ger van Wengen on his involvement with the first 'white' Gamelan ensemble Babar Layar and his subsequent career in the national museum for ethnology in Leiden.
YAO
MAX BELFORT A BUSHNEGRO PROPHET
27 MAI 2002 c19:02-20:00
18 NOVEMBER 1999
Field recordings of the Yao mountain people of South-East Asia. The origin of humankind, a marriage ceremony and the deafening sound of the Dzat. Audio, pictures and playlist An interview with Max Belfort construction worker and Surinam Bushnegro prophet.
 
THE LAND OF THE THREE FOGS
INEKE VAN WETERING
5 NOVEMBER 2001 b19:02-20:00
6 SEPTEMBER 1999
  Field recordings of the Thai Yai (Shan) ensemble Sam Mo Lan Salakan and of Lung Seri Tama playing the rare free reed instrument Pii Hom. Audio, pictures and playlist An interview with anhtropologist Ineke van Wetering on her research with the Bushnegroes in Surinam, illustrated with recordings of dongs and games she and her husband made.
KAREN HARPSONGS
JAAP KUNST
28 MAY 2001 C18:30-19:30
12 APRIL 1999
  Tüpo and his producer Moo Rambo have revived and popularized the classical Karen harp song musical style in Thailand and Burma. Field recordings of Tüpo, and the more traditional Süpo and Sa-U. Audio, pictures, a map and playlist   An interview with Ernst Heins of the University of Amsterdam on the famous Dutch ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst and the recent demise of ethnomusicology as an acadamic study in the Netherlands.
AN OLD SONG OF DEMTA
APOCALYPS
30 OCTOBER 2000 V18:30-19:30
18 JANUARY 1999
The Dutch linguist J. C. Anceaux recorded between 1954 and 1962 more than 400 songs in West Papua. For the first time these recordings are now accessible for the general public. Audio, pictures, maps and playlist   Predictions and expectations of the end of time through the ages.
ZITHER, BOW AND LYRE
THREE STORIES FROM LAOS
15 MAY 2000 v18:30-19:30
7 DECEMBER 1998
Field recordings of the Acholi and Baganda from Uganda in which string instruments as the zither, bow and lyre play a prominent role. Audio, pictures and playlist   Three life stories from Laos illustrating the recent history of the country from a fragile independence and the gruesome American war till the party regiem of the Pathet Lao, told by three common citizens of the country.
CHILDREN'S VOICES
THE FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE
10 JANUARY 2000v 18:30-19:30
12 OCTOBER 1998
An overview of children songs world wide with field- and published recordings. Audio, pictures, links and playlist   A reportage on the Frankfurter book fair with special attention for publishers from Mongolia, Bangla Desh and Nepal.
LAOS
PAUL PANHUYSEN AND MOSES ASCH
15 NOVEMBER 1999V 18:30-19:30
5 OCTOBER 1998
Field recordings from North and Central Laos with music from the Khammu, Lenten, Thai Dam, Thai Lue, Thai Neua, Hmong and the court musicians of the last king of Laos. Audio, pictures, links and playlist   An interview with artist-composer Paul Panhuysen on his sound sculptures and his relationship with the American record publisher Moses Asch of Folkways.
SURINAM MOSAIC
THE ROYAL LIBRARY 3
12 APRIL 1999 v18:30-19:30
21 SEPTEMBER 1998
Surinam music recordings in Dutch sound archives. Caribs, Wayana, Arowak Indians, Creoles, Marrons, Hindustani and Javanese, a multicultural tapestry in sound. Audio   An interview with Henk Porck on the paper collection of the Dutch Royal Library.
CHANG SAW
THE ROYAL LIBRARY 2
4 JANUARY 1999 v18:30-19:30
14 SEPTEMBER 1998
Field recordings of the ensemble Si Nuan Thung Pong playing the Chang Saw musical style from North-West Thailand in which alternating man-woman singing and the free reed wind instrument Pii Saw play an important role. Audio An interview with Reinder Storm on the collections of the Royal Library, on collectors and their habits and on some special collections of the library.
 
SHAMANS AND NEO-SHAMANS
THE ROYAL LIBRARY 1
23 FEBRUARY 1998 v18:04-19:00
7 SEPTEMBER 1998
  SHAMANS AND NEO-SHAMANS. A confrontation between the reality of shamanistic rituals recorded in their context and the published recordings of self styled modern neo-shamans. Audio   An interview with Wim van Drimmelen on the jubilee exhibition of the Dutch Royal Library, its history and its future.
AFRICAN ADVENTURE
RADIO CHANG MAI
12 JANUARY 1998 v18:04-19:00
28 AUGUST 1998
At the occasion of the premiere of a compilation of the travel movies Dutch industrialist Theo Regout made on his African journeys between 1924 and 1964, in this programme a selection of 78 rpm African records from the period.   The former CIA funded Radio Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand is nowadays an important venue of expression for the hill tribes in the whole of Northern South-East Asia. A reportage.
THE MOUTHORGAN PLAYER NAI HUA
LEO ALTING VAN GEUSAU
10 NOVEMBER 1997 v18:00-19:00
21 AUGUST 1998
THE MOUTHORGAN PLAYER NAI HUA. Field recordings of the Hmong with a song on their creation myth and one of the masters of the Qeej, the Hmong mouthorgan, Nai Hua.  
An interview with the Dutch anthropologist Leo Alting van Geusau who has dedicated his life to study and preserve the Akha culture and identity.
 
WORLDMUSIC ON THE RADIO
WALRAVEN
8 SEPTEMBER 1997v 19:00-20:00
1 MAI 1998
A history in sound of worldmusic broadcasted on Dutch radio-stations from the 1930's onwards.   An interview with Professor Walraven of the University of Leiden on Korean shamanism.
MUSIC AS A WEAPON
AFRICA 78
28 APRIL 1997 v19:04-20:00
27 MARCH 1998

A history in sound of the role music plays in war with examples from the Spanish civil war, the independence struggle in Aden, the war in Biafra and so on.

   African music on 78 rpm records, an overview.
FROM THE BIRDS HEAD TO THE STAR MOUNTAINS
EDWARD LUYKEN
27 JANUARY 1997 v18:04-19:00
6 MARCH 1998
An overview of the recordings from the former Dutch New Guinea (West Papua) in the Dutch sound archives.   A visit to the studio of movie director, painter, sculptur and musician Edward Luyken.
DISAPPEARED VOICES
EZRA POUND
4 NOVEMBER 1996 18:00-19:00
16 JANUARY 1998
An overview of the recordings of disappeared cultures, languages and nations in sound archives.   A programme on the American poet Ezra Pound with historical recordings.
YAMORE
PAUL JULIEN
5 FEBRUARY 1996
21 NOVEMBER 1997
A live performance of the Surinam Carib Indian music and dance group Yamore.   An interview with Dutch secondary school teacher, explorer and writer Paul Julien on his adventures in Africa. Rebroadcasted 9 september 1998.
SAYEED KHAN
BRASS ORCHESTRAS WORLDWIDE
6 NOVEMBER 1995
24 OCTOBER 1997
Sayeed Khan, a famous singer of the classical North Indian music talks about his view on different world music styles.   An overview of the spread of the 19th century military and religious brass bands across the world with unique field recordings.
THE LAHU
EARTH RADIATION AND DIVINING RODS
25 SEPTEMBER 1995
29 AUGUST 1997
Fieldrecordings of the Lahu in North Thailand.   A documentary on the vogue of earth radiation and diving rods in the 1950's in the Netherlands. Rebroadcasted 23 december 1998.
TRADITIONAL MUSIC FROM THAILAND
RAMA 5 IN THE NETHERLANDS
1 MAY 1995
1 AUGUST 1997
Thai traditional and folkmusic published by local cassette - publishing houses, rowing songs, boxing music, procession dances, chang saw, moo lam, luuk thung, court music and northern pop. Audio   An interview with Han ten Brummelhuis on the visit of the Thai king Chulalongkorn to the Netherlands.
MUSIC OF THE KAREN
SOUND POETRY
7 MARCH 1994
20 JULY 1997
Fieldrecordings of the Karen and Karenni in Thailand and Burma. Historic, legendary, epic, educational, instrumental and auto-biographic songs, dance music and music for rituals. First ever recordings of these unique music cultures   An overview of sound poetry from Dada till now.
MONGOLIA
SLAUERHOFF
14 MARCH 1991
9 MAI 1997
Field- and published recordings of the Mongol speaking people of Inner and Outer Mongolia.   An overview of the recitated and sung poems of the Dutch poet Slauerhoff.
NATURAL ART LABORATORY
NEO-LATIN
22 SEPTEMBER 1988
11-4-1997
Natural and pre-historic sounds and the music of the Amazone Indians. A programme around the by Sound Reporters published cassettes Natural Art Laboratory and Amazone Indians.   An interview with professor Heesakkers on the literature in Neo-Latin in the Netherlands from the 15th century till the 20th century.
THE CAVES OF TOIRANO
MUSIC NOTATION IN THE CUNEIFORM SCRIPT
9 OCTOBER 1986 V20:02-21:00
21 MARCH 1997
Walter Maioli and friends play on prehistoric music instruments in the caves of Toirano. Later published by Sound Reporters.   An interview with of professor Theo Krispijn on music notation in the cuneiform script with the three different interpretations of the 3400 old hymn of Ugarit including the professors own version.
SAMPARI
MUSIC ARCHEOLOGY
26 JUNE 1986n 20:02-21:00
28 FEBRUARY 1997
The Papua music and dance group Sampari.   An overview of music archeology from prehistoric Sweden till the classical greek and roman period.
 
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THE SOUND OF SPACE
23 JANUARY 1986 v20:02-21:00
10 JANUARY 1997
Sound Reporters as a publisher of ethnic and electronic music and sound archeology.   An overview of the use of sound in the scientific study of space and in the imagination of the universe. Rebroadcasted 27 june 1998.
 
 
SZEKELY LULOFS
 
23 JANUARY 1986 v20:02-21:00
22 AUGUST 1996
  An hommage to the once famous Dutch writer Madelon Székely Lulofs with a unique historic recording of her voice.
 

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